Amsterdam -- The man accused of murdering filmmaker Theo van Gogh on Nov. 2 dreamed of replacing the Dutch government with an Islamic theocracy, and was supported by a network of like-minded fanatics, prosecutors said yesterday at his first public hearing.

The suspect, Amsterdam native Mohammed Bouyeri, 26, did not appear at the pretrial hearing, but his lawyer said Mr. Bouyeri wants to "be held accountable for his actions" and sees them as part of a religious war.

A Kuwaiti man has reportedly confessed to killing his 14-year-old daughter because he believed she was having sex.

Adnan Enezi - an employee in the Islamic Affairs ministry - had just returned from the pilgrimage to Mecca.

He allegedly bound and blindfolded his daughter, Haifa, knelt her down in front of her two brothers and sister and then cut her throat.

Forensic tests showed Haifa was still a virgin, police sources said. Mr Enezi is being questioned about the case.

Thousands of women are killed by relatives each year in the Middle East and Asia in so-called honour crimes - usually over suspected adultery, pre-marital sex or after having been raped, or marrying without family consent.

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The daily said that after cutting Haifa's throat the first time, he swapped the knife for one with a sharper blade as she bled and screamed in front of her siblings.

Now where is the honour in killing a helpless and bound 14-year-old girl? There is such a thing as honour, but this is not it. The concept of "honour" which is referred to is the old tribal concept of saving face, where one is all part of a larger group competing with other groups, and the actions of one member reflects upon all in one's own group.

This is the intrinsic view of "honour". For cowards whos self-esteem is bound up with how others view not only oneself, and not only one's immediate family, but all of ones relatives. This is "honour" for those who are too cowardly to face reality, and view the opinons of others as holding omnipotent sway.

Such men have no honour! And neither do the jackals that they bow down to.

Monday, January 24, 2005

Well, I guess the only acceptable ads would be women covered from head to toe in a burka. How would one advertise a new bra wearing a burka? You can't. And I think that the reactionary mullahs are quite happy with that.

Now if people can just destroy anything that they find offensive, what would happen if people were to follow up on that logic, or lack there of? What if people found Islam to be the epitomy of what is offensive?

What would a muslim reply if somebody blew up a mosque because they found the dehumanising treatment of women in Islam offensive?

It is immoral to vandalise and impose by force one's ethical or aesthetic beliefs upon others. That is one of the core values of western civilisation. If this is not acceptable, then there are plenty of dictatorships that hold to the Islamic advertising standards where one can move to.

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

"MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow plans to erect a new statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, returning his once-ubiquitous image to its streets after an absence of four decades, a top city official said Wednesday."

Disturbing, deeply disturbing.

Now this seems to be part of a trend.

"In another sign of Stalin's growing appeal, state television channels have shown a number of prime-time television shows in recent months depicting him in a positive light."

The symbolic act of erecting this statue is to glorify the socialistic murder ethos. The question to ask now: Is Russia moving towards re-establishing its past dictatorial glory and aggressive murderous ambitions?

"Al Qaeda has introduced an online women's magazine with articles including dietary advice for suicide bombers and tips on how to "dominate the passions" before blowing yourself up, according to Italy's SISDE secret service."

Except for blowing up and killing other people their agenda seems to be quite similar to western feminism.

Well there is no chance of being viewed as a sexual object when you are covered from head-to-toe in a sheet, looking like Caspar the unfriendly ghost, and packing enough explosives to blow up everybody in the bar!

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"At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society here, Dr. Schaefer, a professor of physics at Louisiana State University, reported that the text of Hipparchus' catalog was still lost, but that he had found possibly the next best thing, a pictorial representation of the catalog's contents."

No manuscript was found, but the next best thing. On an ancient statute of Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders.

"Dr. Schaefer said Hipparchus made small celestial globes showing the positions of stars in his catalog, and the original Greek sculptor probably consulted one of these globes in chiseling the Farnese Atlas."

All in all this seems to give credence to the belief that Hipparchus was more advanced than was previously thought.

Everybody seems to be screaming their heads off about prince Harry's choice of party-costume. It's getting quite tedious.

As Mark Steyn succinctly remaks "It's a good rule of thumb that, no matter how big an idiot someone is, he can never compete with the political class's response to his idiocy. Thus, whatever feelings of unease I might have had about Prince Hitler were swept away the moment the rent-a-quote humbugs started lining up to denounce him."

"I suppose it's possible that, should fate bring Harry to the throne, he'd turn into a Victor Emmanuel or King Carol of Romania and lend a constitutional figleaf to some Fascist regime. But worrying about a minor Royal schoolboy's alleged Nazi bent seems something of an indulgence at a time when the neo-Nazis get as many votes in Saxony's elections as Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic Party; when from Marseilles to Paris, Jews are being attacked and their homes, schools, kosher butchers, synagogues and cemeteries burnt and desecrated in a low-level intifada that's been going on so long the political establishment now accepts it as a normal feature of French life; and when the Berlin police advise Jews not to go out in public wearing any identifying marks of their faith. It's not just Nazi insignia you don't see in Germany these days; Nazi wise, the uniforms are the least of it."

Monday, January 17, 2005

""There are also grave concerns about theatres and cinemas, which could be just as vulnerable as a nightclub," he said. "We have got to prepare these locations so they can get their act together for any attempt at their premises. We are visiting these locations, the licensees and the managers, passing on our experience and advice."

"AN EXTREMIST London cleric is using live broadcasts on the internet to urge young British Muslims to join al-Qaeda and has condoned suicide terrorist attacks. Omar Bakri Mohammed, who has lived in the UK for 18 years on social security benefits, pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden and told his followers that they were in a state of war with Britain."

According to CNN journalist Seymour Hersh "The Bush administration has been carrying out secret reconnaissance missions to learn about nuclear, chemical and missile sites in Iran in preparation for possible airstrikes there"

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